Driving Continuous Improvement
Find a vast array of advanced scrum topics and patterns that can increase your Team’s Velocity. Online courses and classes for Scrum Masters, Scrum Product Owners, and those team members seeking continuous improvement. If you’re not a member, visit our pricing and plans page for more detail.
Patterns: Finish Early, Accelerate Faster
Finish Early, Accelerate Faster (FEAF) is a Scrum pattern language composed of a number of Scrum Patterns used together. FEAF is an incredibly powerful pattern language because it will help new Teams establish good practices and take experienced Teams Hyper-Productive; defined as a Velocity 400% higher than a Teams’ initial Velocity.
Scrum Retrospectives
One of the core principles in Scrum is the idea of continuous improvement. Each Sprint the Team engages in an inspect-and-adapt cycle during the Retrospective meeting. Beyond that though, the Scrum Guide doesn’t offer much insight into how to run a successful Retrospective and how to use the meeting to improve production, quality, and velocity.
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Scrum Montage
Montage-a-google Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to...
Get an Experienced Developer on the Test Team
In 1993, at Easel Corporation, we went to the local university and hired their best Master of Computer Science graduate to join the test team and focus 100% on automation. This was one of the decisions that put the first Scrum into a hyperproductive state where we...
A Good ScrumMaster is Hard to Find
A Zen master famous for his collection of wooden Buddhas once said, "Enlightened people are everywhere but a good wooden Buddha is hard to find!" Really good ScrumMasters are hard to find because they get promoted to VP of Engineering or head of a business unit or run...
Kaizen Mind: Essential to High Performance Scrum Teams
Ko Sasaki for The New York Times. An instructor ends a class on auto maintenance. The program is part of Toyota's efforts to maintain quality in the face of rapid overseas expansion. In the typical company where I do Scrum consulting there may be urgency around...
The Managers Role in Scrum
Open Space hosted by Jens Ostergaard Minneapolis, Nov 2006 Notes by Stacia Broderick The purpose of this open space was to discuss the role of the manager in the scrum process. Jens told us that Scrum could be CMMI Level 5 compliant if a manager role were to be...
HICSS 2007 Agile Track – 5 Jan 2007
Incorporating Lean Development Practices into Agile Software Development Co-Chairs: Jeff Sutherland and Jean Tabaka For details see CALL FOR PAPERS Fortieth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort and Spa on the Big...
Scrum in 5 Minutes
When I am in Scandinavia, I often work with Softhouse, a consultancy with clients like Sony/Ericson and IKEA. They have an excellent short paper called: Scrum in 5 Minutes On my laptop, I can run this PDF in full screen mode as a slide show and use it for press...
Is CMMI worth doing?
The ScrumMaster Trainers list is discussing the Scrum CMMI Level 5 paper and raise good questions: Does CMMI provide any benefits? Some have worked on CMMI projects that just generated more overhead with no benefits. What do the authors think about this? Systematic...
Scrum supports CMMI Level 5
Level 1 - Uncertainty. Success depends on individual effort. Level 2 - Awakening. Basic project management practices are established. Level 3 - Enlightenment. Standard process throughout organization. Level 4 - Wisdom. Detailed metrics are collected and evaluated....
Scrum Certification in Buenos Aires 8-9 Nov 2006
The ScrumMaster Certification course will be led by Jeff Sutherland and take place at "El Querandi", Peru 322, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It's a very nice place. CSM Course includes 1 hour lunch an coffee breaks during morning and afternoon. CSM rate is USD 900,-....
6 Agile Ways To Increase Employee Engagement
Organizations who utilize Agile ways of working experience a 20-30% improvement in employee engagement. Engage, Equip & Empower your employees.
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